[ Academia ] [ Litigation ] [ Regulatory & Policy ] [ Transactional ] as a Related Elective for those interested in International Conflict : Human rights issues also have an environmental component: for example, food and water for security for struggling populations. This course examines the developing law of international human rights, with an emphasis on international human rights agreements, international and regional human rights courts and tribunals, and international human rights organizations, both governmental and non-government.

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This course will examine the developing law of international human rights, with an emphasis on international human rights treaties and agreements, international and regional human rights courts and tribunals, and international human rights organizations, both governmental and non-governmental. The course will examine the postwar emergence of civil and political human rights, the development of social and economic human rights, and the more recent articulation of collective and group human rights. It will also explore the normative justifications for enforcing human rights beyond the bounds of national sovereignty, and challenges to these justifications under the forces of globalization.

Course Style: A Substantive course teaches the law, theory, and policy in a particular area of law